Namesakes
Life is full of incongruities and makes the mundane tolerable. Identifiably, I'm somewhat of a maven* so it's ironic I hadn't realized my namesake means something to architecture and my discovery really needn't travel very far. Thus the irony. My shared last name Eichler and specifically the work of Joseph Eichler had a compelling effect on the California landscape. Although working mainly as a developer, his houses iconify California modernism, but what I realize now; his work might've auspiciously been my catalyst of discovery in this new field. I definitely see an intrinsic value in learning, but sometimes I don't understand the forces of influence and wonder if maybe I did miss my calling in architecture. I say that jokeningly, but fair enough you never know. Regardless Joseph Eichler was a 'sales-man' (at the very least) not in the traditional sense, but selling 'word-of-mouth' the epidemic style, notion and name of 'California Modern'. I see this everyday as it's emblematic of this area and has prevaded my subconscious. So classic yet so short sighted of me that I didn't realize this before.
My name is synonymous with Architecture, therefore I'm awesome! ...Not quiet, definitely not true, but ironic maybe. Funny definitely.
* Tipping Point reference
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